Monday, December 19, 2005

QUOTE OF THE YEAR

Brian Williams:

“A lot of people have seen in this series of speechesyou’re giving on Iraq, a movement in your position.They call it an acknowledgment that perhaps themission has not gone as it was originally planned —three points: That the U.S. would be welcomed asliberators, that General Shinsecki, when he said thiswould take hundreds of thousands of troops in hisfarewell speech, might have been right. And third,that it wasn’t a self-sustaining war in terms of theoil revenue. Do you concede those three points mightnot have gone as planned?”

President Bush:

“Review them with me again.”

Williams:

“Number one — that we’d be welcomed as liberators?”

President Bush:

“I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peacefulwelcome.”

–– Interview between NBC News Anchor Brian Williams and President of the United States President George W. Bush, December 12, 2005.